Alice's adventures in Wonderland
By: by Lewis Carroll ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham ; with a proem by Austin Dobson
Contributors: Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921, writer of proem; Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, illustrator; Heinemann (Firm); Doubleday, Page & Company; Hentschel Colourtype, Ltd; James Ballantyne and Co; Ballantyne Press; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co.
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Imagination; Curiosity; Decision making; Girls; Conduct of life; Adventure and adventurers; Imaginary places; Illusion (Philosophy); Innocence (Psychology); Dreams; Animals; Playing cards; Courts and courtiers; Croquet; Theft; Juvenile Wit and humor
Description: A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
Notes: "Illustrations reproduced by Hentschel Colourtype; text printed by Ballantyne & Co. Limited at the Ballantyne Press, Tavistock Street, London"--Colophon.

With a half-title; publisher's advertisement on verso of half-title.

Color plates accompanied by guardsheets with descriptive letterpress in red ink.

Three full-page illustrations included in pagination.

British issue?

Rare Book copy 2: Pictorial endpapers wanting. Bookplate with monogram of unidentified former owner.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Issued in full green publisher's cloth binding with lettering in green and figures from the novel stamped in gold; top edge colored green; pictorial endpapers in green on white, illustrated by Arthur Rackham; in white dust jacket with blue-black lettering, illustration of Alice, and publisher's advertisement.

Rare Book copy 1: In original publisher's binding and dust jacket.

Rare Book copy 2: Bound in full parchment; upper and lower covers with gilt fillet borders; upper cover decorated in colored ink with illustration of Alice within a gilt frame containing roses and the title; spine with lettering and roses in ink within a gilt frame; turn-ins with gilt borders and additional paper frame pasted down with a gilt fillet border.